As described in Understanding System Users all sites deployed via SpinupWP are owned by a unique system user. This provides security isolation on the server because a site user cannot read or modify another site’s files. Each site is also deployed with a PHP-FPM resource pool, which is owned by the site user. This prevents…
The following plugins are installed with every WordPress site created and deployed by SpinupWP. However, for custom WordPress deployments you will need to install the following plugins yourself. SpinupWP This plugin adds page cache purging functionality to your WordPress site. In addition to automatically clearing the page cache for individual posts, pages, and other content…
All SpinupWP servers are configured with a default maximum upload size of 64MB. However, you may increase this limit if you need to allow larger files to be uploaded via the Media Library. This setting cannot be adjusted via the SpinupWP UI, so start by connecting to your server via SSH using a sudo user,…
There may come a time when you wish to promote an additional domain to become the primary domain used to access your site. This can be done from the Domains tab on your Site dashboard. When you change the primary domain, SpinupWP will perform all of the necessary actions to move and update the files…
WordPress will often need to send emails to you or your users. These emails are known as transactional email, and common ones include: Admin notifications New user signups and password resets Purchase receipts and order updates (WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, etc.) Form submission emails from form plugins Email servers are notoriously difficult to set up….
When you create a Git site in SpinupWP your server needs to be able to authenticate with your Git provider so it can run commands like git pull (which SpinupWP uses to deploy your site). Authentication happens using SSH keys and SpinupWP generates a unique SSH key for you to use to authenticate with your…
Push-to-Deploy is a way to automatically deploy your site live once you push code to a Git repo. How to Use Push-to-Deploy To get started, you’ll need the following: A site managed in a Git repo. SSH access to that specific Git repo. A live SpinupWP server. You can enable Push-to-deploy at the point of creating…
In order for some of WordPress’ features to function, it will need write access to your site’s files and folders. This is true of the following features: Media Library uploads Adding/updating plugins and themes Updating WordPress core If you manage WordPress core, plugins, and/or themes via git, Composer or some other deployment process, WordPress will…
Package Config Locations When you provision a server using SpinupWP we use best practices to set up and install all of the required software packages your server will need to run WordPress properly. This includes installing packages (such as PHP, Nginx, MySQL, etc.) in default locations and not using customized packages as some other hosts might…
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